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fiod

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Registered: 2007-04-02

Posts: 205

Reallly slow KDE

Hey,

I just moved to Arch, after trying Ubuntu, Gentoo and Sabayon.

I installed everything with no difficulties, but after installation KDE is VERY VERY SLOW.

Opening a terminal can take up to 30 seconds!

I think it might have something to do with hdparm and hard disk default settings.

I can't seem to be able to set the DMA flag and 32 bit flag using hdparm, because only /dev/sda exists (and not /dev/hda) and hdparm does not accept those flags for /dev/sda.

Is there any work around for those of us who still use a regular IDE drive (now after only /dev/sda exists)?

Do you have any other suggestions why KDE (and hard disk behavior in general, though only with X running) is so slow?

Thanks
FIOD

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: Reallly slow KDE

That kind of behaviour can occur when your hostname has not been set in /etc/hosts. Add a line that reads like this

127.0.0.1               your_hostname

That should fix most slowups with KDE.

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Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: Reallly slow KDE

I can't seem to be able to set the DMA flag and 32 bit flag using hdparm, because only /dev/sda exists (and not /dev/hda) and hdparm does not accept those flags for /dev/sda.
Is there any work around for those of us who still use a regular IDE drive (now after only /dev/sda exists)?
Thanks
FIOD

/dev/sda = /dev/hda under the new pata/sata modules.   hdparm wont work with these new modules and AFAIK the new modules should setup the best settings for your drives automagically.  I think you can switch back to the older IDE module by editing /etc/mkintcpio.conf, changing the hooks line mkinitcpio wiki, and mkinitcpio -g [your kernel].

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: Reallly slow KDE

I would say your "lo" network connection isn't up and running.
DMA is _not_ your problem, and it's probably turned on already by default.

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